Why do rich people believe the ill-effects of poverty can all be solved with school prayer?

Question

That seems like naive upper-class snobbery to me.

Answer 1

It would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to get into heaven.

And the rich man called to Abraham, and said would you send Lazarus to me so that he could dip his finger in the water and cool my tongue

Answer 2

Actually, it might help. Prayer = Donations = Cash. But wait! They didn't think about the next problem... The school gets the cash, not the people! It is in fact "naive upper-class snobbery".

Answer 3

Poverty will always exist....

I could really care less about forcing kids to go to schools where prayer is happening (I'm a Christian but I really don't see the sense in making people observe prayer time when they don't care).

Poverty will always exist, but hope and purpose can overcome the ill effects of poverty.

Also, I think it's a huge error to lump rich people and conservative Christians into the same group...they're two separate groups who happen to support the same party

Answer 4

Your question assumes that all or most rich people are social conservatives who support the religious right. That isn't true. If the "red state/blue state" division is any indicator most school prayer supporters are probably at the lower end of the middle class. Most school prayer controversies occur in small Bible belt towns which don't resemble Beverly Hills.

Answer 5

Don't believe you can associate poverty with prayer in a monetary sense of the words. Most privileged people believe we (meaning not so rich folks) are beneath them anyway.
School prayer is more of a spiritual/behavioral issue not monetary Honeychild!

Answer 6

Because its upper-class naive snobbery!

Answer 7

It is how they relieve that GUILTY feeling that they get when they have all of the means to change something but not the charity to do so.

tax breaks for the rich,

increase the minimum wage, (so that we can tas the middle class more)

do minimum wage earners understand that that raise will put them in the next tax bracket, and probally end up costing them more money than they are making?

the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.

but Praying in homeroom will fix all of that.....

Answer 8

I don't believe that this is a rich or poor issue a lot of people believe this. Just look how society has declined since they removed prayer from school. Look at crime gang violence drug abuse..

Answer 9

The people at the top rely on a stable and ordered group of people at the base. And religion is one of the best way to keep people in line.

Answer 10

They have way too much time on their hands. I doubt many of them are praying with their kids at home. Just another way of blaming all of society's ills on someone else.